The Last Law-Dodging Pirate Bay Founder Has Been Arrested

Fredrik Neij, the last Pirate Bay founder to evade capture, has been arrested. Authorities caught Neij driving across the border from Laos (where he had been living with his wife and children) into Thailand, acting on a warrant issued by the international police force Interpol.

Neij's arrest follows the June capture of co-founder Peter Sund, while colleague Gottfrid Warg was sentenced at the end of October to three-and-a-half years in prison for his involvement in the file sharing site.

Of course, the Pirate Bay remains a functioning site despite the arrests, and remains the largest of all torrent sharing websites. Between proxy sites, mirrors, domain changes and an insane hardware set-up, locking up and throwing away the key on its founders would do little to affect the site's continued popularity. [TorrentFreak]